Flag-draping device



Y Jan.. 23, 923.

l. SEVERSON. FLAG DRAPlNG DEVICE.

FA LED AUG. 9, 1922 'oli' a character to harmonize with 'the i'las's i which are to be draped. For example, where inierican flags are to be draped, the design oi 'the i-'melican eagle andshield may be placed on the triangular device A.. lVhere ilags of other countries or flags oi' various organizations are to be draped, the designI or ornamentation of the device A may be varied to correspond. In the illustration given, two American Hugs are shown, and the flag-draping device A is ornamented by the picture of an eagle carrying a shield.

The foregoing detailed description has been given for elearness of understanding only, and n o unnecessarv limitations should vbe understood ther from, but the appended claims should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

l lll/hat l regardas new, and desire to secure by vLetters Patent, is:

l.l A flag-draping device comprising a flexible substantially triangular member equipped centrally with a vertical stiiener and provided further `with means enabling` 'said member to be suspended and with means for attaching iags so that they will be suspended beneath the inclined lower edges of said member.

2. A Hag-draping device comprising a flexible member equipped at its corners with eyelets and provided centrally with an elongated vertical pocket` and a stillening meniber in said pocket.

3. rl. ilzig-draping device comprising a substantially triangular member roniposed o l' fabric and equipped at its eorners with eyelets and provided centrally with a vertieal pocket which is closed alg. its lower end and open at its upper end. and a vertiral stillening member in said pocket.

el. il- (lag-di'aping device comprising a triangular member Vcomposed olf ilfabrie and equipped with means for holding its lower cornerspaeed with relation to its upper edge. said member being equipped with means whereby flags may be suspended beneath its inclined lower odias, and said deriee having uurv itz-fell.I be

means whereby said device suspended. Y

ilagdra1'iingdevice comprising a substantially triangular member eoniposed ol' fabric, said member having its corners equipped with eyelets, a central strip el 'l'abrie having` its lateral edges secured to the triangular member and forming :i vertieal pocket, central eyelets at the upper portion of said triangular ifabrie and at the upper portion ol said strip ot labrie, and a slii'l'euing member confined in said poeke.

6. The combination of a lag-draping device comprising a triangulx'zr member provided with ineans whereby it may be supported with its upper eilgry disposed horizontally, and flags suspended from .said triangular member and disposed beneath the in elincd loiver edges thereof, ereh ol' said flags having one corner secured te the eerresponding upper corner of said triangular member, said flags being draped and having` bunehed portions secured to the lower corner or said triangular member.

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